More on the splicing code (Introduction)

by dhw, Saturday, January 26, 2013, 14:11 (4320 days ago) @ David Turell

dhw: 6) should be acceptable to theists and atheists alike, apart from those theists who believe in separate creation, since it leaves open the question of how the "decision-making source" came into existence.
 
DAVID: Your euphemism "decision-making source" skips the real issue. Intelligent genomes must get their intelligence from some other intelligence. Otherwise you are proposing chance can create intelligent information. No Way.-Why is it a "euphemism"? The expression was yours, David, not mine:
"Another view of how alternate splicing with the same gene makes two different species, and might show how speciation happens. But where is the intelligent decision-making source hidden in the setup. That is not yet clear, or is it foredained somehow in the original DNA code?"-The issue here is a credible model for evolution, which currently does not (in my view) deal adequately with the 5 points you have not quoted from the post to which you are replying. Your argument against chance applies to ANY explanation of life and evolution, but not every scientific theory has to answer the God question! Darwin's didn't, though it revolutionized the way we think about life's history. However, I'm delighted with your response, because clearly you now appear to accept the concept of "the intelligent genome":-dhw: Would common descent (= all forms of life are descended from earlier forms) have been possible without such a mechanism?
DAVID: I doubt it.-Thank you.